On the last working day before Chinese New Year's Eve, the last plenary session of the Senate and House of Representatives before the Spring Festival holiday is also underway at the Manchester City Parliament Building.

In addition to all the members of the two houses of the National Assembly, President Bao Zitu, Supreme Justice Lu Mei, and Premier Guan Ruzhong were also present at the meeting.

Under the chairmanship of the President of the Senate, Qi Jianjun, the meeting first adopted the list of the general election of the Senate of the Congress in 1646, and then announced the results of the election of the new president.

Since the internal scandal in the country a decade ago, the Senate and House of Representatives have been staggered by two years. According to the provisions of the Electoral Act, a third of the senators were to be replaced in the new Senate elections after the beginning of the spring of 1646.

Although the Constitution does not prohibit senators from serving multiple terms, some elderly people who have passed the age of 70 will officially retire after the end of their current term of office, and will say goodbye to politics.

In fact, not only the Senate, but also the older generation at the top of the Chinese and American countries have faded out in the past decade, including the president Baozitu.

The first president, Chen Changyuan, was bedridden for a long time, but he still often taught at the medical school of the National University of Capital at the age of 85, and he was still working hard to train high-level medical talents.

The second president, Li Ping, who is 76 years old this year, has long since retired from politics, except for serving as honorary chairman of several non-governmental organizations, and continues to return to universities to work in mathematics education, and no longer show up.

Bao Zitu is 68 years old this year, and for a politician, it should still be the golden period of political life, but he announced his retirement before the Spring Festival and gave up re-election.

Compared with other respected old people, Bao Zitu has not had a good reputation among the relatively young traversers since he stepped into the Chinese political circle. Therefore, Bao Zitu chose to take the initiative to retire this time, and there is also a relief to see through the world.

After the election of both houses of Congress, the new president will be Zhao Fang, the former speaker of the House of Representatives and a veteran ship doctor.

In a sense, the position of the highest mascot of Huamei is still held by conservatives. Although the president of the United States does not have any specific powers, he has the special power to dissolve the House of Representatives in conjunction with the President of the Senate and the Supreme Justice.

Bao Zitu's resignation and retirement speech is very short. The members of parliament at the scene all gave a standing ovation, and Zhao Fang, who took over as the new president, walked up to the stage, shook hands and hugged Bao Zitu, and then officially took office in a ceremony witnessed by Supreme Justice Lu Mei.

Looking at the colleagues in the conference hall who already had gray hair on their temples, Su Zining sighed slightly in his heart.

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"The next topic is the consideration of the official bill of the Cabinet of Ministers on the allocation of military expenditures to Europe and the second draft of the Provisional War Tax Act."

After the speakers of the two houses successively issued a speech of thanks to Bao Zitu for stepping down, the venue returned to solemnity, and Zhou Yi, speaker of the House of Representatives, began to read out today's official agenda.

"After two rounds of preliminary deliberations by the House of Representatives, the Cabinet and the National Security Council have completed all the revisions to the "Appropriation of Military Expenditures in Europe", and will withdraw a total of 2 million yuan from the 'special national military reserve' in the second and third quarters respectively ...... draft of the "Provisional War Tax Act". An additional ...... will be added to the business tax of enterprises above designated size"

After some back-and-forth, the Senate passed the final review of the "appropriation of military spending to Europe", which can be regarded as a vote on which consensus has been reached a long time ago. But during the hearing of the second draft of the Provisional War Tax Act, many old people in the Senate frowned.

According to the distribution of political forces in China and the United States today, even if the election is re-elected after the Spring Festival, at least half of the Senate will still be old guys belonging to the conservative faction, and as long as they still control the Senate for one day, some out-of-the-ordinary bills will be blocked in the Senate even if they pass the House of Representatives.

The Provisional War Tax Act, prepared by the Cabinet. A few months ago, the House of Representatives completed the first round of hearings on the draft and proposed amendments, but the content of the second round of drafts once again shows that many people in the House of Representatives are deliberately lowering their standards or diverting attention from the issue of assuming "state responsibility."

With the development of overseas strategic layout. In the coming years, China and the United States will face a number of foreign military operations, which will usher in the highest peak of war spending. Even in the early years, the Cabinet made advance financial preparations, and every year allocated a certain amount of money from the fiscal revenue to the special military reserve account of the state, in case there was no money available. But the total accumulated at the moment is only a little over 4 million.

Half of the "appropriation of military expenditures to Europe" will be withdrawn at once, and the rest will definitely not be enough for the projected future expenditures.

In order to continue to replenish the account of the special military reserve of the state, the Cabinet of Finance, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Defense jointly applied for a three-year "Provisional War Tax Act". It is also hoped that additional treasury bonds will be issued to ensure corresponding expenditures.

According to the original intention of the Cabinet, this temporary war tax will only be applied to large and extra-large enterprises with a registered capital of 200,000 yuan or more, and the temporary war special tax will be increased by 3% on the basis of the original enterprise business tax.

But the original version was apparently interfered with or attacked by the House of Representatives, as the temporary war tax bill was clearly intended to continue to pump oil from certain big monopolies.

According to the definition of Huamei's relevant enterprise laws, the five levels of enterprise scale are divided into extra-large, large, medium, small and micro enterprises, respectively: registered capital of 1 million yuan, 200,000 yuan, 50,000 yuan, 10,000 yuan, and less than 10,000 yuan.

The initial intention of the Guan Ruzhong cabinet was clearly not intended to make the temporary war tax too widespread.

After arguing back and forth for almost two months, Guan Ruzhong finally had to make another compromise, and the threshold for collecting the temporary war tax was changed to small enterprises with a registered capital of more than 10,000 yuan, but the tax rate was reduced to 2%.

On the surface, the tax rate has been reduced, but the actual coverage has been expanded countless times, and a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises have been included. On the surface, it promotes a spirit of "the rise and fall of the country, and the responsibility of the husband", but it has shifted a lot of the social tax burden that should have been borne by the monopoly oligopoly.

This is probably the greatest sorrow of Premier Kwan Ru-chung, who is a conservative, when he was in power: although the cabinet took back much of the executive decision-making power from the Diet a decade ago, the current cabinet has been almost unable to move a strong House of Representatives on certain legislative issues.

When it comes to key interests, liberals, progressives, and centrists are surprisingly unanimous. Twenty-five years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the innate viciousness of monopoly capitalism can be said to have been vividly demonstrated in the current House of Representatives of the United States.

"A temporary war tax is necessary, but the current scheme is very problematic. It is recommended that the House of Representatives renegotiate with the Cabinet. Now small and medium-sized enterprises are affected by the shrinking export trade environment is still continuing, and the temporary tax increase bill is still being made. We must be cautious. ”

Seeing that many people present were silent, and after exchanging glances with Speaker of the House of Representatives Zhou Yi wordlessly, Qi Jianjun directly sentenced this typical selfish plan to death.

Regardless of whether this attitude is the unanimous opinion of all senators, Qi Jianjun's domineering attitude still made all the deputies choose to be silent, but the expressions on their faces are wonderful.

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"The last topic is the feedback on the "Opinions on the Handling of the Senior Membership Problem and the Analysis Report on the Situation in the Far East" jointly submitted by the Cabinet, the National Security Council, and the head of the Far Eastern Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

"Originally, because of Zheng Zhilong's disturbance last year, our original military action plan in the Far East had been disrupted, but just half a month ago, there was a military coup d'état! After Yan Sihai's death, the idea of supporting Yan Sihai's second son to ascend to the throne still has a big market in Dayuan Island. Fortunately, Yan Sicheng did not have an accident in this turmoil, otherwise the problem would have been a big problem. ”

"Although the coup d'état was suppressed by the Asian Fleet and the Far East Regional Command, this political turmoil within the senior officials once again exposed that the National Security Council was always too subjective and optimistic in the planning and implementation of the Far East strategy, and did not take into account more and more subtle influencing factors and the feudal political and cultural atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty!"

Speaking of this, Qi Jianjun also deliberately looked at the faces of several members of the National Security Council, including Su Zining.

Seeing Qi Jianjun's reprimanding gaze swept by, Su Zining could only secretly complain in his heart.

"We all know that time passes every day. The affairs of the Ming Dynasty are about to come to the stage of final processing. In terms of the content of this report alone, there is no essential difference from previous years, except that the Japanese issue is relatively clear, so we must come up with a Far East policy that will clearly guide the next 10 years. ”

Qi Jianjun raised the stack of documents in his hand. His face became more and more solemn.

"Di Zugong and I have both visited the Far East before, and we have done some research, and we have some differences of opinion on the whole Far East affairs."

An Shaoqing stood up and glanced at Di Zugong, who was not far away: "My personal opinion is." The root cause of this coup d'état lies in the fact that we are too concerned about and interfere in some local interests in the Far East, and fail to consider that the stability of the Ming Dynasty mainland is the foundation of the overall stability of the Far East. ”

"So. The real core of the Far East question was still on the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. We must lay the foundation for the Far East with a complete military victory, which will affect our future commercial and diplomatic dealings with the Ming Dynasty. The National Security Council and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still do not have a clear guiding ideology on this point, and they are always drawing some seemingly lofty pies and playing the trick of political separation in the Far East. ”

"Fan Li's Far East plan is feasible, so I don't agree with Lao An's statement." Di Zugong immediately stood up and shook his head directly, "The Ming Dynasty's contempt for us, or hostility, has not improved significantly, what is a 'complete military victory'?" Can it be understood that sending troops to the Ming Dynasty directly solved the Manchu Qing Dynasty? That means we're going to be burdened like never before, and we won't necessarily end up reaping the benefits we want. ”

"We can't even unload the burden of the big man with peace of mind, and we are still worrying about it for three days, so what are we talking about returning to the mainland? Without the stable cooperation of the Yan family, how would we complete the military campaign against the Manchus? Waiting for Luzon and Lanfang to doubt our abilities behind their backs? ”

In other words, the Manchus were the greatest enemies of the Ming Dynasty, so are we the best friends of the Ming Dynasty? In this relationship, from the perspective of geographical relations, the initiative is not yet in our hands. Unless the 'complete military victory' itself also included the Ming Dynasty. Do you think you have the courage to do something? ”

The moment Di Zugong finished speaking, several pro-Oriental people, including An Shaoqing, suddenly changed their faces.

"Okay, don't stare at me, Lao An, Lao Yang. I'm just telling the truth, what is the purpose of our layout in the Far East for so many years? From the original intention, it is not hoped that the rise of our country will create a new historical connection with the world's largest country. What exactly is the connotation of this connection, everyone may understand it differently. However, I want to emphasize that the great man must be under our control for the next hundred years, and become a support point that can be leveraged at any time to leverage the relationship between the Ming Dynasty! ”

Di Zugong began on the day of the crossing. is famous for daring to speak, and this speech immediately caused a lot of whispering.

The so-called "100-year-old member" model is exactly the routine that Di Zugong explored after his trip to the Far East last year, and the central idea is to maintain the existing political separatist status of the senior member unchanged for 100 years, and has been hyped up in the Congress.

"Your idea is more radical than Fan Li's 'breaking and then standing', is it planning to make Dayuan Island the future Taiwan!? Blockading the East Asian continent and turning the Ming Dynasty into an economic colony? How do you live up to that blood in us!? ”

An Shaoqing was furious, even if he was old, once Wenqing's temperament attacked, he would still be angry.

Seeing that the remarks tended to touch on sensitive topics, Zhou Yi, speaker of the House of Representatives, decisively stood up and interrupted An Shaoqing's speech. Got all the staff in the hall out of the venue.

"Hehe, I didn't say it, but I really don't see what ability the Ming Dynasty has to be an economic colony, who has the ability to be its shield? And we are not simply exploiting and plundering, who can deny the progress of Hainan Island and Dayuan Island and the improvement of the lives of local people? ”

Di Zugong still didn't smile.

"Lao Di, your position is based on the assumption that the Ming Dynasty is indeed a helpless Adou, and on the nihilistic Ming Dynasty threat theory, these assumptions are all false propositions. At least Yan Xiaosong's 'equal sitting' strategy can be in line with our strategic interests and worthy of our past. The Ming Dynasty was already wary of us. We also openly interfere in the affairs of the ministers, and even openly control the political separatism of the officials, which is tantamount to burying the relationship with the Ming Dynasty! Lao Di, don't get too involved in the play. ”

A pro-Oriental congressman is helping An Shaoqing.

"On an equal footing? Worthy of the past? So can we be worthy of the future? Come on. Who lied to whom? From ancient Greece to the 21st century, the world has not yet escaped from the 'Thucydides trap', and we can see it in an instant? ”

"It cannot be said that this theory is absolutely correct, nor that it takes much effort to pull the Ming Dynasty out of the old order. But can we really afford to accept the existence of a competitor whose population is now 100 times that of us? Until the 19th century, it was a country where it was possible to live at ease without any external aspects. It doesn't matter if it has self-esteem and self-isolation, I'm afraid of the goodwill that Yan Xiaosong wants to output in Yan Xiaosong's equal sitting strategy. will make the future of this empire much scarier than European! ”

Di Zugong sat down, seemingly too lazy to continue arguing with An Shaoqing and the others about this topic that had been dragging on for many years.

"Su Zining, regarding the Far East strategy, the original concept was put forward by you and Yan Xiaosong, what do you think about the issue of the senior member?"

Coldly, Zhou Yi, speaker of the House of Representatives, called out Su Zining's name by name, and the eyes of the scene converged again.

It's a blessing or a curse, and it's a disaster that can't be avoided. Su Zining, who was holding this strange thought, could only stand up slowly.

"It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, everyone has a position. We never really belong to this world, and as our lives return to a false state of fulfillment, so does the ambition to orchestrate families, orchestrate nations, and orchestrate the world. ”

"Some people are obsessed with the ties of history, some people want to create new worlds all the time, and some people hope that others will think more about themselves. However, in dealing with the Orient, no sense of superiority or historical mission can conceal the gains and losses that have lasted in our hearts for more than 20 years. ”

"The status quo of the Ming Dynasty or the Great Yuan may not be what we really want to see in our hearts, I don't know ten years from now, but at least for ten years, the status quo it maintains is what we need. Without a man under our leadership, we will have to retreat at least 1,000 nautical miles from our coastal operations in East Asia. That's all I said. ”

After saying a few words lightly, Su Zining sat down again.

seems to be reasonable and leaves enough room for maneuver, as always, not to offend both ends, which is Su Zining's habit when he gets older.

This kind of topic, in the past 20 years, has actually appeared many times, and everyone is almost numb to listening. So when it comes to the core issue, it's a kind of indefinite delay after the noise.

It's not necessarily right in a 100-year scale, but it's certainly not wrong in a 10-year scale.

It can be said that under the influence of Su Zining's "crooked heresy," Yan Xiaosong was able to forcibly promote a set of Far East strategies with his own will for more than 20 years, which is precisely the helpless result of watching while suffering from gains and losses.

This ambiguity on historical issues combined with the vigorous development of Far Eastern commerce and trade year after year has become the guiding ideology of the Far Eastern strategy that has been compromised today: prevention and infiltration, support and suppression go hand in hand.

Not surprisingly, a report on the Far East resulting from the internal turmoil of the senior officials once again sparked heated discussions among everyone in the Senate and House of Representatives, and as usual, such discussions were forcibly stopped by the speakers of both houses without any results.

The National Assembly meeting came to an end, and most people's minds began to rush towards the Spring Festival holiday (to be continued......